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Creator
Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854
Call number
Pforz MS
Physical description
1 item
Preferred Citation
Edward Wedlake Brayley manuscript material : 1 item, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
Repository
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
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To Samuel Egerton Brydges, writer and genealogist : 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Sep 1809 : (MISC 0380) : enclosing a bill for £100 for a Mr. Smith.

Biographical/historical information

Edward Wedlake Brayley, English topographer and archaeologist. With his friend John Britton, he composed the popular ballad "The Powder Tax, or, A Puff at the Guinea Pigs," which sold seventy to eighty-thousand copies. The pair later became co-editors of The Beauties of England and Wales, a journal on the topography and archaeology of Great Britain.

Scope and arrangement

To Samuel Egerton Brydges, writer and genealogist : 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Sep 1809 : (MISC 0380) : enclosing a bill for £100 for a Mr. Smith.

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Location

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319

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